Improve your logistics. Improve your bottom line.
For products and commodities where logistics makes up a significant portion of the cost of goods sold, efficient logistics has a massive impact on the bottom line. Our clients often ask us to optimize their logistics and supply chain costs and ensure every link in the supply chain reliably reflects best-in-class performance. With PLG Consulting’s help, logistics becomes a competitive advantage for your organization.
Diagnostic logistics assessment
Diagnostic logistics assessments are one of the most powerful services we offer shippers.
THE CRITICAL PROCESS STEPS:
1. Understanding your commercial and business objectives
By gaining a firm understanding of how logistics must support your overall business goals, our work proceeds with the right objectives in mind and prioritizes the biggest areas of impact.
2. Performing a comprehensive review by our expert team of all significant aspects of your logistics, including:
Freight Spend | Assets | Infrastructure | Process | Technology | Organizational Structure | Inventory Management | Distribution Network
For each of these elements, we provide an operational and cost assessment based on competitive and like-industry benchmarks, utilizing interviews, data analysis, site visits, external criteria, and our team’s decades of unique expertise and experience specific to your industry.
3. Providing a prioritized list of initiatives and actions targeting the greatest impact on your business goals
From the review, we present an attack list of activities designed to impact your organization’s objectives. Most importantly, all of PLG Consulting’s solutions and recommendations are practical and actionable. We also identify resources required for implementation. In most cases, you can execute the improvement initiatives yourself. However, in keeping with our promise to deliver practical, real-world value, PLG Consulting can execute any improvements you select for us.
We routinely deliver benefits in excess of 10x our professional fees.
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What can you expect from PLG Consulting’s diagnostic logistics assessment?
A thorough understanding of your organization's logistics SWOT, operations, and costs
Practical actions and solutions that you can implement to improve operations and optimize costs quickly and sustainably
Objective benchmarks and reference points to understand how your company performs against peers and similar industries
Transformation of your logistics from a cost center into a competitive advantage for your company
Project Examples
Major refining company optimizes their logistics strategy via comprehensive railcar fleet assessment
A major petroleum refiner, producing high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and specialty lubricant products was looking for a comprehensive railcar fleet assessment to understand opportunities for improved efficiencies and cost reductions. Due...
Major landfill gas recycler teams up with leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to bring to market cost-effective compressed gases
An international leader in developing technology to make clean burning, renewable second-generation biofuels was looking to team up with a leading provider of waste disposal and recycling services to recycle landfill gases into cost-effective compressed natural...
Global Fortune 500 food manufacturer implementing six major supply chain transformation initiatives from PLG
PLG helped a Fortune 500 food manufacturer identify six key global supply chain opportunities. PLG evaluated how the client manages its supplier relationships, assigns accountability, captures critical shipment and invoicing data, and drives efficiencies in transportation...
A world-class producer of calcium products sees seven-figure cost reductions
Founded in 1907 and built on one of the world's richest limestone reserves, this client is the most diversified producer of high-quality lime and calcium-based products in North America. With thousands of rail shipments per year,...
Water infrastructure product manufacturer saves $4.7MM after optimization
Although continually showing year-over-year budget improvement in logistics costs, a leading provider of safety, quality, conservation, and flow-control products to water infrastructure markets in North America, Europe and China had not done a major network analysis...
Diagnostic assessment of transportation and logistics processes identifies over $700K in cost improvement opportunities
Major US manufacturer of washroom equipment was looking to improve their cost competitiveness and gain competitive advantage. Services Provided Implemented comprehensive supply chain process review. Evaluated processes, people, and systems supporting transportation and logistics through interviews, data...
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